Funny Games (1997, 2007)
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke remade his own 1997 in 2007 for English-speaking audiences, and stacked it with top-notch actors. It’s a very tough watch in any language: Two apparently clean-cut young men (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet, above) drop in on a couple (Tim Roth and Naomi Watts, above) and their young son, and ask to borrow some eggs.
They proceed to play horrific games that are funny only to them — on the family, and on the audience. The film is a commentary on violence and our cinematic expectations of it, but it messes with your emotions so egregiously that it’s bound to offend. In fact, that’s Haneke’s goal.
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